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  1. how was i being judgemental? i was just saying that it had no meaning for us.....

    Awww, c'mon Slave, I was just joking with ya. If you like I can send you a Bloomin Onion, whaddya say? G'day mate :friends:

  2. it has no meaning what so ever to us ( i don't even know the origins ! ).

    of course our retail shops are selling the stuff, trying with all their might to get us to waste our money on it......

    Hey now, don't get all judgemental on us Americans, it's not like we appropriated and bastardized some ancient pagan rite of harvest simply for profit :poke:

  3. So it's my 10th Halloween at my current job, and of course I never fail to come to work appropriately.

    When you shave your head, head wounds are mandatory, and I do some variation every year.

    This year, I still had some leftover decals from last year to get it started.

    But then I went to the Halloween store last night and got this stuff called Creepy Skin, and it's perfect!

    It's kind of an oily, waxy mixture with some fiber (cotton?) mixed in to give it some more consistency.

    You just mold it however you want to create ridges, bumps, flaps, etc. as needed.

    It adds just the right touch of depth and realism necessary to any good head wound!

    Finish it out with fake blood accents, and you're ready for the Emergency Room!

    And yes, the one over my left ear has a somewhat vaginal appearance, but I'm still satisfied with the overall results.

    So, post some pics of your Halloween transformation!

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    Hoy shit man, does Obamacare cover that :hysterical:

  4. I understand completely and I must admit that I may go "Over the Top" when it comes to this show. It's all cool with me. I just want to try and turn other Led Zeppelin fans onto this show. Like I said before, if I can get just one person to get into this show, I will feel satisfied. I also realize that Everyone has their own likes and dislikes, so "Breaking Bad" may not be the to their liking.

    I do believe that You even said that it is a Great show. If I may, can I ask you what made You like this show (and have you actually seen every episode? From beginning to end, there were 62 episodes).

    By the way, maybe they didn't tell you that I don't shine Fucking shoes anymore, You Fucking mutt. (I know that you get this).

    Edited to add: I would really like to see a movie made in the (near) future with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Bryan Cranston. Maybe with the premise of a Meth Kingpin from ABQ doing "Business" with a NYC Godfather.

    Who plays the "Godfather" though? Bobby De Niro or Al Pacino? Maybe I should start this and write a script and screenplay. Three of the Greatest American Actors of All-Time in one Movie.

    I actually started watching it a few months ago on Netflix, me and the wife were "addicted" immediately! We went through the whole show, all five seasons in two months and caught up right when the last three episodes were airing.

    I have to admit, I watched it a couple of times when it first came out but my self-righteous indignation made me hate the concept of this show from the get go. I could not fathom watching a show with such a fucked up premise. However, several years passed, I pulled the stick out of my ass, and found I enjoyed the show for the journey. Watching WW & Jessie go through their changes and becoming what they were was well worth it.

    Great show!

  5. This is the scene that I meant to post yesterday. Another Powerful scene in the history of television. This is the prequel of the scene when Hank gets killed.

    For any people on this forum that have not had the Pleasure of watching this Awesome show and maybe considering watching it, I strongly urge You not to watch this clip.

    For those of you who have been a fan and have Knowledge and seen this episode, this should remind You and prove that "Breaking Bad" is the Greatest American Television Show of All-Time. The plot and Suspense is Remarkable.

    I do not care and consider what anyone says about about Me regarding My Love for this Show. If certain people want to "mock" Me or want to "disparage" Me for what are My Strong Beliefs and Opinions, so be it. Words (and cheap words from sagittarius rising and strider) actually make Me laugh. You two are supposed to be adults, but a lot of what you post are what children would say and cannot take any criticism. I can take criticism without getting worked up and posting stupid, inane, and ignorant comments just because someone tries to change what I (and make Me look bad) say to make them look better. Grow Up and learn that whatever you say (and think and post) is not always right.

    I have learned that Myself, So I admit that I am not always right either. However, I know that I am right that "Breaking Bad" is the Greatest American Television Show Ever!!! Even those who want to "disparage" what I say, just realize that I am just only one of 15+ million that would, could and want to prove anyone Wrong. Just watch the show, and I guarantee that You will NOT be disappointed.

    We are not mocking you, some of us just think you are going a bit over the top is all. Hey, if if the show has made a positive impact on your life and you think it is the greatest show of all time, good for you, who am I to argue.

    It's all good my friend, no offense.

    Now go home and get your fuckin' shine box!!!

    (That was a joke, and a reference to another iconic piece of media).

  6. Hey Kingzoso, you are right, I was joking yet you even took my failed attempt at humor to heart. I was just making a funny, I know Miami Vice was a cheesy show that was the whole point!

    Jesus Christ, Breaking Bad is an awesome show, cures cancer, will bring about world peace, and if men watch it, it makes their junk grow too!

    Happy now???

  7. Here is the scene of Walter White saving Jesse Pinkman and at the same time the massacre of Uncle Jack and his Nazi cohorts. This clip was obviously filmed by someone as they watched it on tv, however, it is the only clip I can find of this scene (so far) on YouTube.

    In my opinion (and yes, most of you are aware that I have very strong opinions and convictions regarding this Show), this is one of the most Dramatic and most Powerful scenes in television history. Just over one minute in duration but what a Strong and Awesome scene it is (besides the fact that Walter takes a ricochet bullet to his abdomen and soon dies from this wound).

    What!!! More powerful than the Miami Vice episode with Ted Nugent???? C'mon now.

  8. I loved Jesse and his Bitch all the time!!!!

    Jesse was my favorite character, I really thought they were going to kill him off and what Jack's ass-posse did to him over the course of those last three episodes was inhuman. Killing his girlfriend right in front of him, you could see he was in a hell beyond explanation. If he ever stars in a motion picture with a good script, homeboy gonna walk away with an Oscar.

  9. Not even close imho. Maybe you could try comparing Vince Gilligan to Jimmy Page, but then Vince would have to create another 6 or 7 original series equal to or surpassing Breaking Bad.

    Yes, I agree. I think Kingzoso is going a bit overboard on the love for Breaking Bad. It is a good show, one of the best indeed but not the best, in the top 10. Comparing WW to JP is silly because it is apples to blue meth! WW character was great but he was also a piece of shit who contributed nothing, he himself was a cancer and ultimately consumed all around him. Fuck WW! Rest in pieces...BITCH!!!!

    Great show though.

  10. I really like Terry Reid though I kind of view him in the same vein as Roy Harper. I think he preferred it small and intimate, don't think he courted fame nor really wanted it. Though had he taken Page up on the offer I believe without Bonham and the Plant dynamic the band would have been good but probably remained somewhat underground. Maybe two or three albums and that's it, a minor blip on Rock music's radar. That is not an insult to Mr. Reid mind you, it's just that a perfect storm is just that, all element must be perfect and in the right place, move something around just a bit and...POOF! Just imagine the Stones without Jagger, Gun's & Roses without Axl, Pink Floyd without Roger Waters. Wait, forget that last one, we all know how that turned out.

  11. :hysterical::hysterical::wave: Sag, what an experience, but it happens. The only scary experience I had (I was tending bar in my family's restaurant) was a woman in military uniform try and come over the bar after me. She had decided she was in love and would not take "no" for an answer. I ran out of the bar and told my brother who promptly grabbed the woman by her collar

    and seat of her pants and tossed her out the door onto the oyster shell covered parking lot. :mad: Everyone laughed about it but me. I had a Jack Daniels shot and went back to work. :blush:

    No kidding, as crazy as my experiences were I was still a man and could defend myself. Women bartenders always take much more shit and have to worry about the creepers both during, and end of shift. I have always been respectful of bartenders and never hassled them, if they come to me for conversation that is one thing, but I know they have a job to do so I never engage outside of please and thank you.

    I must admit, I love a good, old fashioned, classy upscale hotel bar the best. The Palmer House in downtown Chicago is my all time favorite, however Durant's in downtown Phoenix, Huber's in Portland, and of course The Spotted Cat and Fritzel's in New Orleans are all damn good!!! Honorable mention to Sweet Lorraine's.

  12. Now, just you listen. I know all about these southern drinks, I must say. I gave the recipe for a Sazerac on another thread. It was invented at the Roosevelt Hotel in the Sazerac Lounge in the great city of New Orleans. A Ramos Gin Fizz is far superior to any other kind of fizz, IMHO.

    Down the hatch, Sag-man. I was a bartender as well, what do you think of that? :drinks:

    What d I think of that? Well, I hope you had better luck than I, that is what I think! In Chicago all the choice bartending jobs back i the late 80's went to the sexy ladies, or in the case of high end restaurants, older and very experienced ladies and gentlemen. So, I wound up at the Galaxy Bowling alley on Theodore St in Joliet, two miles down the road from Statesville Prison. The bar was a slaughterhouse. I actually came in to apply for a bouncers job however they took one look at my 5'11" 185 lbs frame and said no way (the smallest bouncer was 6'2" and 250 lbs). They did however offer me a job as a bartender even though I had zero experience (well, I did open beer cans at parties) so I figured what the heck. One of the bouncers took pity on me and instructed me what to do and what NOT to do in certain situations. I was told under no circumstances was I to try and break up fights and most importantly, NEVER turn your back on a pissed off woman in particular. I learned the hard way on that last one.

    One night a recently paroled guy and his lady friend were at the bar drinking shots, neither one was talking at all. After about 20 min the guy (a little dude, about 125 soaking wet) hauls off and busts the woman square in the nose...blood flying everywhere! I vault the bar, grab the guy and start screaming what the hell is your problem as I begin to throw him out. Just then (as my back was turned of course) this woman, about 95 lbs, jumps on my back and proceeds to beat the living shit outta me, scratching, gouging, punching, kicking, biting...the full monty! I could not get this woman off of me to save my life (which was soon to come to an end) but then one of the bouncers came, ripped this woman off my back, and throws her about 10 feet through the air. She lands back first on a two top ( I seriously thought this should have killed her or paralyzed her in the least), tumbles to the ground, jumps up like some possessed fucking cat, and runs balls out of the bar...gone!

    So there I a standing looking like a seriously chewed up piece of meat and the bouncer who saved me smiles and said, "it's bad enough you ignored rule number one, but never ignore rule number two...a woman will fuck up a man quicker that Mike Tyson if she sets her mind to it."

    So, that was me bartending experience! Rough guys, even rougher women, and never once during my year and a half as a bartender did I have a Cocktail (movie) moment. No hot ladies vying for my attention (there were none in that joint), and not a single Piper Parabo on the staff, actually the two ladies we did have working looked more like Roseanne.

    Good Times :injured:

  13. I like Bourbon and Absinthe myself, Basil Hayden and Booker's are my favorite Bourbons. Used to be a bartender in my college days and I still love me a Mint Julep more than any other drink, though a well made Sazerac is might fine. Must use Rye for the Sezerac though, and the Absinthe is only to coat the glass.

    Anyway, for those southerners out there (hello TypeO) and other Bourbon lovers, here is my secret recipe for the perfect Mint Julep:

    One tumbler glass (short fat glass), two tablespoons of soda water and two teaspoons of natural, raw sugar. Take fresh mint leaves (about twelve) and add to mixture. Take pestle and muddle mixture in glass (crush up). Let sit for five minutes to release mint. Fill glass with ice to top, then fill entire glass with straight Bourbon. Take mixture and transfer to shaker, shake very well and strain into Collins Glass (tall, skinny glass), then add ice and garnish with mint leaf.

    When finished the concoction should look like Mississippi River water, carmel colored and muddy with tiny bits of mint leaf floating about. This will taste like heaven on earth for Bourbon lovers (of course it will taste like shit if you don't like Bourbon). To me this is the essence of old South romance, reminds me of long nights in Chatsworth Georgia on the porch with friends looking out at the most vibrant green-blue landscape while hearing the crickets sing and watching the fireflies dance in mid-air. Ahhh, glorious magic of those Southern nights. How I miss my Georgia peaches!!!

    Ps. If you want the Sazerac recipe PM me, it's too complicated to post at this hour :drunk: Too much Bourbon in me!

  14. It's kind of messed up to ask Ginger Baker what he thinks of such and such drummer and band, but the stuff he was saying about Jagger was funny.

    He's a bitter man, but people shouldn't be taking offense at him trashing other bands. If you knew you were damn good, and all of a sudden you're off hanging with Fela Kuti while the young pups that were studying you in the clubs are then playing stadiums when you finally leave (and not by choice), it's going to come as a bit of a shock, isn't it?

    Graham Bond Organisation was a great band (the same band John McLaughlin was a part of) but they only did a couple of albums and few clips exist. Ask anyone who saw them and they said they were one of the best bands they've ever seen. Clapton had to REALLY want Bruce and Baker, knowing they fought like cats and dogs on and off stage, because he also knew there was nothing else doing what they did.

    Cream was a benchmark in rock, even if their songs bore ya and their Farewell video makes you dizzy, they were game changers for musicians, and we got some hit songs out of them.

    Would there be a "Moby Dick" if there wasn't a "Toad"?

    Too bad for poor little Ginger, that is just how it goes sometimes. As you mentioned the great John McLaughlin you don't see him old and bitter because he was not playing stadiums, he was and is above that and lived for the music. Never cared if he played for 20 or 200,000 he was happy in the fact that he could create beauty and share it with the world. If some "got it" yet the majority did not it never fazed him one bit because that was not important, the beauty and creation was. That is the difference to me, McLaughlin and those like him (Plant is a good example) are true musicians, creating for the sake of creation and love, whereas assholes like Baker and Bruce care much less about the creation and way too much about the fame, recognition, and adoration. Those type are not musicians IMO, they are simply musical savants who being naturally gifted buy into their own hype and place the music a distant second. Of course not all natural musicians are like that, but those two (Bruce & Baker) are prime examples.

  15. That is indeed Peter Mayhew. David Prowse is not in that photo.

    It is such a shame they dubbed Darth Vaders voice with James Earl Jones. Prowse's voice would have been awesome!!! Think about it:

    "Cherieoo Obi Wan, how bout we slog off to the pub and talk about it over a pint? Waddya say mate? No? Well bullocks! You wanna act the tosser you nancy geezer than sod off!"

    That would have been priceless!

  16. Catholic Mass/sign of peace. "May the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always" ("May the force be with you") "...and also with you".

    I read years back; about mid-way through the Harry Potter series' release; that both the Star Wars and Harry Potter series (and others as well) borrow from several universal themes that are common across multiple religions but specific to none (good and evil; holy trinity; a Judas-like figure; religion/the force/magic, etc.). There are plenty of examples.

    Big, big difference between the dualistic good vs. evil theology of the middle eastern religions and the all encompassing, good and evil are simply constructs of the eastern religions. The force was neither good nor bad, it became whatever the person was who was tapping into it. The same is in Buddhism, you make exactly what you wish to make, you want to be good than be good, want to be evil than be evil, but there is no god and devil, there is simply the godhead and there is truth. Christianity and other similar philosophies believe in a continuous struggle between a good force (god), and an evil force (satan). They are completely either or philosophies whereas the eastern philosophies do not believe in evil at all, just fear and ignorance. That is why The Force is in no way a christian construct since the force was never good nor evil. Lucas went to great lengths to point that out in the series. Vader, Sidious, Duku, Mal were "dark" because they were ignorant and scared and thus chose the easy path. Luke, Kenobi, and Yoda were "light" because they sought the truth and the difficult path toward enlightenment over the shortcut to power for powers sake the "dark" side offered. In truth there was no dark or light side to the Force, only how one used the Force.

    Than again it's just a fucking movie so who really gives a shit. I personally believe in The Shwartz!!!

  17. May the force be with you. (Always seemed to me that they should be crossing themselves when they said that)

    Why? That makes absolutely no sense especially since Lucas based "The Force" on Buddhist teachings, nothing christian about it at all, if anything it is anti-christian.

  18. No, they only played it in Japan 1996. Thats were they goofed it up a couple times, nailed it a few times.

    I checked those out on YouTube and nowhere did Page screw it up in any performance that I could tell. As Matjaz1 said above, I only noticed where the band and the orchestra were "off" a couple of times and I don't really consider those screw ups but some have higher standards I guess. To me it's rock and roll, if someone wants perfection listen to classical where every note is perfect and always sounds boringly exactly the same.

    I told my daughter the other day when she asked me the difference between classical and rock: Rock is so popular because of it's simplicity and looseness, it has become the soundtrack to modern life. Classical on the other hand cannot ever be the soundtrack to life because of it's very structure, no one loses their virginity in the back of a Buick at 17 to The Magic Flute (get it???), they lose it to the Stones, Zeppelin, or Mazzy Star.

  19. The '95 tour is among the most bootlegged of all time. Even so they probably could have released one of the Autumn '95 California shows but it would have competed against the dvd release of 'Unledded', which the record label would not have wanted.

    The '98 tour was in support of a commercially disappointing album.

    If that was indeed the logic (about the 98' tour at least) it is a shame. Sure, the album was disappointing I must admit but even before it came out I kinda knew it would be, they just had too much of a shadow to overcome and the overall production sure did not help.

    The tour itself though was a separate animal, so what if the album was not awesome, the tour sold out and the shows were amazing. For once I wish they would have taken a page from the Gene Simmons Playbook...whatever it is, sell it, the money is there. Not that I believe in that approach but if it gives us access to this material I am for it!

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